DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0126Z September 15, 2023

SMOKE:
Canada, United States, North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and
Eastern Pacific Ocean….
Numerous wildfires continue to burn in western and northwestern Canada
resulting in significant smoke with an area of moderate to high density
smoke seen over the southern Northwest Territories and northern Alberta.
Other areas of moderate density smoke were seen over and just southeast
of southeast Greenland, over Manitoba and extending southwest into the
Northern Plains of the United States and from the northern Canadian
Islands extending southeast towards northern Quebec. Moderate (to even
dense smoke near the sources) was visible in northern Idaho, western
Oregon, and over northwestern California extending west over the coastal
Pacific Ocean where it begins to move south. The much larger surrounding
area of mainly thin density smoke attributed primarily to the Canadian
wildfires covered virtually all of Canada, the central, and eastern
United States, the Gulf of Mexico, northern Mexico, the eastern Pacific
Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East coast and eastern
Canadian coast through much of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE,
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS.  AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED.  USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:

JPEG map:	https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
Smoke data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons
Fire data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.